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Using keyword tags as short descriptions
I confess I always used to hate DITA short descriptions: to me most of the ones I produced or read seemed like either "motherhood and apple pie" statements with no information value or statements that might serve to introduce a topic, but didn't work well in isolation (for example, as hovertext).
I now have a solution I'm happy with: The short descriptions in the DITAinformationcenter have been programmatically produced from the keyword tags associated with each topic, and they appear with the topic and sub-topic titles in mini-tocs, as well as in hovertext over links.
I maintain that they are far more useful than any sentence-style short descriptions that I have ever produced. Check them out and see what you think.